True or false: Lower string tension produces more power; lighter racquets travel faster and have more power; thinner-gauge strings create more spin; a long follow-through keeps the ball on the strings ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Newcomb covers tennis gear/business, stadiums and shoe tech. So much is made about the technology of tennis rackets. But don't ...

Professional tennis players call it “the Luxilon shot,” and, apparently, you can hear it coming. The ball crosses the net hissing and spitting like some enraged tropical insect. Its most lethal ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A University of Colorado Boulder alum created what he says is the world’s first-ever 100% synthetic, biodegradable tennis string through his Boulder-based ...

George and Dee Tompkins met in a tennis/ski shop on a day when neither was supposed to be there. Dee Tompkins should have been at work, but had gone to a job interview instead, and then she planned to ...